Comments on: ‘On Thud and Blunder’ — Thirty Years Later http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/05/on-thud-and-blunder-thirty-years-later/ Adventures in Fantasy Literature Thu, 17 May 2012 02:58:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » Thud, blunder, and the hammer of the gods http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/05/on-thud-and-blunder-thirty-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Black Gate » Blog Archive » Thud, blunder, and the hammer of the gods Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:01:29 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=1277#comment-273 [...] read with interest Bill Ward’s entry two weeks ago about Poul Anderson’s famous essay, On Thud and Blunder.  While I agree with Ward that [...] [...] read with interest Bill Ward’s entry two weeks ago about Poul Anderson’s famous essay, On Thud and Blunder.  While I agree with Ward that [...]

]]> By: NightHawk777 http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/05/on-thud-and-blunder-thirty-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-217 NightHawk777 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:06:56 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=1277#comment-217 Thank you for posting this. It's something I was trying to put my finger on a while back. I even started a post about one of these topics over on the official REH site about fighting styles. You see these old black and white pictures of REH where he's either boxing, or has swords, or guns. And my post was simply asking, what type of fighting skills did REH possess. It is obvious to me when you read any of the fight scenes that he really understood personal combat, the ebbs and flows of a fight, etc. And there are intricacies to blade fighting that you might not pick up on, unless you have at least a rudimentary understanding of it. Ah well, i find it to be quite fascinating. Thank you for posting this.

It’s something I was trying to put my finger on a while back.

I even started a post about one of these topics over on the official REH site about fighting styles. You see these old black and white pictures of REH where he’s either boxing, or has swords, or guns. And my post was simply asking, what type of fighting skills did REH possess. It is obvious to me when you read any of the fight scenes that he really understood personal combat, the ebbs and flows of a fight, etc. And there are intricacies to blade fighting that you might not pick up on, unless you have at least a rudimentary understanding of it. Ah well, i find it to be quite fascinating.

]]> By: James Enge http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/05/on-thud-and-blunder-thirty-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-208 James Enge Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:35:30 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=1277#comment-208 Thanks for this: I'm a big Anderson fan and it's a pleasure to reread this article. I first read it in that same volume, too, the Tor collection <i>Fantasy</i>--a rotten title for a great book. The issues have certainly changed in 30 years. It seems to me there's no lack of period detail in imaginary world fantasies--maybe too much detail, sometimes, obscuring the line of the story. But it's still the authentic points of concrete imagination that strike deep, and Anderson was a past master at those. Thanks for this: I’m a big Anderson fan and it’s a pleasure to reread this article. I first read it in that same volume, too, the Tor collection Fantasy–a rotten title for a great book.

The issues have certainly changed in 30 years. It seems to me there’s no lack of period detail in imaginary world fantasies–maybe too much detail, sometimes, obscuring the line of the story. But it’s still the authentic points of concrete imagination that strike deep, and Anderson was a past master at those.

]]> By: Examining Poul Anderson’s ‘On Thud and Blunder’ — BillWardWriter.com http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/05/on-thud-and-blunder-thirty-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Examining Poul Anderson’s ‘On Thud and Blunder’ — BillWardWriter.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:15:18 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=1277#comment-205 [...] Click here to read ‘On Thud and Blunder’ — Thirty Years Later [...] [...] Click here to read ‘On Thud and Blunder’ — Thirty Years Later [...]

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